Agreement Gives SOTAX Distribution Rights to Waters ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System within Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Accounts

MILFORD, Mass.– Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the SOTAX Group, a global developer and manufacturer of equipment for dissolution testing, automated sample preparation, and physical testing of pharmaceutical dosage forms. Under the terms of the agreement, Waters will make available to SOTAX its ACQUITY UPLC® H-Class System for sale to drug manufacturers performing small-molecule, solid-dosage analysis in quality control and analytical research and development.

“Improved sample preparation to keep pace with the speed of our ACQUITY UPLC instrumentation platform has often been requested by our customers,” said Mike Harrington, Ph.D., Senior Vice President – Global Markets. “This exciting new collaboration links Waters and SOTAX technologies enabling our mutual customers to streamline their analysis, characterizatio